[00:00.00] 作曲 : N. JONES/M. BATSON
[00:01.00] 作词 : Batson, Jones
[00:10.38]I gotta lay down the block,
[00:11.85]
[00:13.04]when the block is hot
[00:14.30]
[00:15.38]I gotta use my imagination,
[00:17.36]
[00:17.97]to change the situation
[00:19.48]
[00:20.67]I gotta lay down the block,
[00:22.51]
[00:23.33]when the block is hot
[00:24.55]
[00:25.82]I gotta use my imagination,
[00:27.71]
[00:28.39]to change the situation
[00:30.71]Yea, Feds feast on street dons,
[00:32.00]look at their teeth showin'
[00:34.00]Salivatin' at the mouth,
[00:35.49]South to East Orange
[00:36.70]Keep pourin' that liquor,
[00:38.01]but nigga don't sleep on it
[00:39.16]You'll be givin' up your Jesus piece
[00:40.69]to your peeps to pawn it
[00:41.85]For legal fees in the penal dorm
[00:43.62]Screamin' on the horn with 'bout
[00:45.31]thirty years on your conscience
[00:46.38]I'm watchin' brothers disappear,
[00:47.98]
[00:48.51]it's appallin'
[00:49.38]Some dudes had just only a year of ballin'
[00:51.85]Counter-intelligence
[00:52.15]
[00:53.02]found a strange evidence
[00:54.10](When the block is hot)
[00:55.05]Still we behind the wheel with heat on us,
[00:56.92]hangin' with predicates
[00:58.10]Position we placed in caves in,
[00:59.38]so they got us caged in
[01:00.64]Ways spinnin' like Mike Bivens
[01:02.12]from New Edition aging
[01:03.22]I got families I'm feeding '
[01:05.15]cause my mans is bleeding
[01:06.53]Every five seconds look in all directions
[01:08.48]I come through prepared;
[01:10.15]I give 'em a call
[01:11.08]I'm close, bring them guns downstairs
[01:12.75]I gotta lay down the block,
[01:14.18]
[01:14.85]when the block is hot
[01:16.20]
[01:17.45]I gotta use my imagination,
[01:19.99]to change the situation
[01:22.17]
[01:22.88]I gotta lay down the block,
[01:24.77]
[01:25.46]when the block is hot (hold it down)
[01:28.43]I gotta use my imagination,
[01:29.99]
[01:30.71]to change the situation
[01:32.87]Uh, uh, it's beef week,
[01:34.03]Monday, murder
[01:35.13]Two niggaz dead, Tuesday
[01:36.69]Wednesday and Thursday is hearse-day
[01:38.38]Friday, somebody-gotta-die-day
[01:40.28]Saturday, put the gat away
[01:42.41]Chillin' wit your chick and a bag of haze
[01:44.86]Wonderin' how it's all gon' end
[01:46.65]and what type of way
[01:47.59]'Cause Sunday back to gunplay
[01:49.11]Mo' shit start over nothin'
[01:50.61]
[01:51.21]And get finished quick 'cause
[01:52.31]the art of repercussion
[01:53.54]
[01:54.20]Yeah, I seen it, a G' going out indecent
[01:56.97]Takin' a plea agreement,
[01:58.15]thinkin' he secret
[01:59.34]Escape the crime scene,
[02:00.53]now you live straight like 9:15
[02:02.85]Then one-time intervene
[02:04.57]My man ain't like me sayin'
[02:05.65]I don't care if I die
[02:06.90]But the SIG Sauer on me now
[02:08.56]I'm scared to die
[02:09.53]You thinkin' the one
[02:10.55]I send to clap you be a shorty
[02:11.98]But he old school, holdin' a .38,
[02:13.56]he in his forties
[02:14.71]I gotta lay down the block,
[02:16.48]
[02:17.44]when the block is hot
[02:18.51]
[02:19.95]I gotta use my imagination,
[02:21.68]
[02:22.85]to change the situation
[02:24.51]
[02:25.20]I gotta lay down the block,
[02:26.88]
[02:27.40]when the block is hot
[02:28.91]
[02:29.98]I gotta use my imagination,
[02:32.17]
[02:32.86]to change the situation
[02:34.24]
[02:35.06](I gotta...) Anytime brothers
[02:36.24]can't get jobs, then they rob
[02:38.40]A man rather die than
[02:39.38]live on his knees and starve
[02:41.14]Cops steady askin' your man what happened
[02:43.44]First he tell then he stop,
[02:44.56]like he not really rattin'
[02:46.15]Guess he not really
[02:46.88]in that casket from a sawed-off
[02:48.42]
[02:49.04]Listen,
[02:49.29]peep game from the brain of an all-star
[02:51.68]The rain hurt niggaz bones who been shot
[02:53.92]Metal pins in their leg,
[02:55.39]they walk with a limp-hop
[02:56.96]The streets lie,
[02:57.55]so you better be cautious
[02:59.15]Your man'll fry you plus,
[03:00.55]everybody talkin'
[03:01.49]
[03:02.16]A vet, a General,
[03:03.02]don't step where I walked in
[03:04.49]Make your own path,
[03:05.52]be a legend in your skin
[03:07.03]Make your own cash,
[03:07.86]don't stress what I'm forcin'
[03:09.38]Don't expect more
[03:09.93]when you put in less work than all them
[03:12.02]
[03:12.57]Queensbridge projects has taught him,
[03:14.71]and that's for life
[03:16.02]You heard me right, I got the block
[03:17.85]
[03:18.66]When the block is hot
[03:20.04]
[03:28.99](When the block is hot)
[03:29.96]
[03:32.93]I gotta use my imagination,
[03:34.47]
[03:35.24]to change the situation
[03:37.06]
[03:37.87]I gotta hold down the block,
[03:39.59]
[03:40.46]when the block is hot
[03:41.64]
[03:42.99]I gotta use my imagination,
[03:44.81]
[03:45.66]to change the situation
[03:47.38]
[03:48.24]I gotta hold down the block,
[03:49.86]
[03:50.93]when the block is hot
[03:52.13]
[03:53.52]I gotta use my imagination,